The Modern Pain Podcast Brain vs Body? How Emotions Shape Pain – With Dr. Mark Lumley
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Aug 10, 2025 Dr. Mark Lumley, a leading researcher in Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, delves into the vital connection between emotions and chronic pain. He discusses how unprocessed feelings can exacerbate pain and the barriers to emotional expression in healthcare. Listeners learn about the differences between Emotional Awareness and Pain Reprocessing Therapy. Lumley also shares practical strategies for integrating emotional understanding into pain management, emphasizing the need for holistic care that addresses both the mind and body.
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EAET And PRT Share Roots And Converge
- Emotional processing and belief-change approaches (EAET and PRT) originated from different lines but overlap in practice.
- Both aim to shift pain understanding toward brain-based mechanisms and often merge in clinical use.
Use Provocative Testing To Shift Beliefs
- Use brief experiential tests to loosen body-focused beliefs about pain, like imagining or doing pain-inducing movements.
- Pair those exposures with calming self-statements to see immediate reductions in pain.
Emotions Inevitably Appear In Reprocessing Work
- Emotions routinely surface during PRT-style sessions, blurring therapy boundaries.
- When strong feelings emerge they often require EAET-style processing rather than only belief-focused work.
